Daily Quiz for July 28, 2015

Corn husker, or perhaps more accurately, a de-husker. While playing at a mill he noticed how slow the process was of husking wheat, so he went home and built a simple device with rotating paddles and nail brushes. Born one of three sons in Scotland, Bell’s family emigrated to the U.S. after both of his young brothers died of TB. He was 27 when he invented the telephone.